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Seems a little condescending to assume you speak for all Dutch milkmaids no?
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@The_Kindness_of_Trees - the response would be, "why is it ok to turn a huge and culturally diverse group of people into one caricatured homogeneous culture based on a degrading Hollywood stereotype"?
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I don't think that gets you anywhere. Nobody's going to object to caricaturing the culturally diverse people of the British isles as a load of bowler hat wearing, suitcase and umbrella carrying south-eastern English middle managers, are they? And nobody minds too much when we dress in Breton tops, berets and toss a string of onions around our necks. There must be more to this than the mere donning of cliched threads.
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True, tongue firmly in cheek ;)
I also can't get the Edam rolling down to a T :P
The_Kindness_of_Trees
JWestland
Well yes indeed where do the boundaries sit. Some say dreadlocks are now cultural appropriation (hello?) and on the local feminism forum there was a discussion on Day of the Dead parties in the UK, some thought it was not OK, others thought it was.
I think it's the element of commercialisation with 0 understanding/pretending to be part of a group you are not (Hindu dots) and being done by the group in power that can tick people off. But again not everyone may be offended perse... in your case maybe Voodoo adherents are unhappy, maybe not.
Tough call. I'm ok with you dressing up as a Dutch milkmaid if it helps :P